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◎管淑平

China has unwound its one-child policy, for decades a symbol of invasive and coercive government planning, but the shift has been met with a disinterested shrug from many younger couples.

中國解除數十年來象徵侵犯權利和強制政府計畫的一胎化政策，但許多年輕一代夫婦對此政策轉變的反應顯得淡漠。

"People are thinking： Why increase our burden by having another baby?" said Wu Tingting, a young mother pushing her one-year-old daughter in a stroller in the southern city of Zhuhai on Friday.

「人們在想，為何要多生個孩子增加我們的負擔？」週五在南方城市珠海推著推車裡1歲女兒的年輕媽媽吳婷婷說。

The ruling Communist Party announced on Thursday that all families in China will be eligible to have a second child, its biggest social policy shift in three decades, in a move to ease the burden of a fast-ageing society at a time of slowing economic growth.

執政的共產黨週四宣布，中國所有家庭都將有資格生第二個孩子，這是中國30年來最大的社會政策轉變，企圖在經濟成長放緩之際，減輕社會正迅速高齡化所帶來的負擔。

Wu, the young woman in Zhuhai, said prior to the policy change, she would have been fined 200,000 yuan if she had a second child. The fine will now be removed, but she remains ambivalent about another child.

在珠海的年輕媽媽吳小姐說，在這項政策改變前，若她生第二個孩子會被罰款人民幣20萬元。現在罰款將被取消，但她對於生第二個孩子的態度仍然矛盾。

"（People）will think about giving more to their existing child... and maybe spend more on education and travel, see more of the world," she said. （Reuters）

「（人們）會考慮對他們現有的孩子付出更多…，或許花多點錢在教育和旅行，多看看這個世界。」她說。（路透）

新聞辭典：

lukewarm：形容詞，微溫的，不太熱中的、不太有興趣的。例句：Our proposal received only a lukewarm response from clients.（客戶對我們的提案反應冷淡。）

unwind：動詞，心情放鬆，鬆開，解除。例句：A seaside resort is a ideal place to unwind.（海濱度假村是使人放鬆心情的理想所在。）

ambivalent：形容詞，不確定是與否的，態度矛盾的。例句：I am ambivalent about getting married.（我對於要不要結婚感到矛盾。）全通翻譯引用自 http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english..